Elements of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577224.001.0001zbMath1276.82001MaRDI QIDQ5894122

Publication date: 16 February 2011

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577224.001.0001

conformal field theory; phase transitions; duality; critical phenomena; percolation; renormalization group; Monte Carlo simulation; mean-field theory; spin systems; exactly solvable models; Kosterlitz-Thouless transition; statistical field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

81T10: Model quantum field theories

82B26: Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics

82B28: Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics

82B43: Percolation

82B20: Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics

82B27: Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics

82C26: Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics

82C27: Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics

82-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistical mechanics

81-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory

81T28: Thermal quantum field theory

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